Dusty Chalk

Needed something lighter to read while eating, so started The Winter Long by Seanan McGuire: Look at this, she already knows what the titles of the next books are and when they will be coming (and purportedly, what they are about):

Jealous.

I got mentioned on Facebook by Seanan McGuire. w00t! Of course, that comment was: Still, she speaks to me like no-one else does. I'd be happy to, anything other than what I was planning on doing today (clean my apartment). Plus, I could definitely use the exercise. Fly me out there? Your treat...

Cables do make a difference, just try to listen to your system without 'em. Ramska bramzska eeny feeny tramska!

And why does Dan get a basketball instead of smilies?

GE -- just fucking return it, fuck 'em. I realize they will just sell it to the next shmuck, until they find someone willing to put up with the overhead, but ... that's the problem (and not just with Apple, any time a merchant has that much more demand than quality supply). Maybe if enough people call them on their shit, they'll quit being money extraction engineers. Crappy, you are the karmic equivalent of brownian motion, I have no idea whether you're accumulating positive or negative. Don't really believe in that, but it's a good model for discussing things like your day.

That's bullshit.

Your fridge raid >> my planned meals

You know, I can moderate youse.

My Palm was fine until it wasn't.

Fairly eye-opening. I always kind of resented something Eno said about synthesizers, but I never actually heard it from the man, himself (it happens fairly early on). I always thought he was a synthesist ragging on synthesizers, trying to tell us it's alright to use presets, but the point he was making was entirely different, he was woeing the absence of interesting patches in synthesizers.

Happy birthday, chappy! (party favour noise on wrong side of the road)

Spongebob and friends beat up unlucky Russian driver (Facebook video)

I just thought they were nice. Maybe he doesn't have any.

I don't get the spinning plates one, but that Boxer is just fantastic. Spot the headphones, electrostatic speakers and amp:

Lunatic Soul new track, "Cold"

Aw, man, don't give up. I'll give you the same advice I keep receiving myself -- just play a little bit every day. 15 minutes. Eventually you'll start hankering for more.

The many faces of Peter Sellars Unwoman/Erica Mulkey:

Love 'em.

Oh Land's fingers (and [dead] guest):

Cheap sushi (Wegman's) -- still good

Foo Fighters, Wasting Light